1 Corinthians 7:34 - Easy To Read Version

³⁴ He must think about two things—\{pleasing his wife and pleasing the Lord\}. A woman who is not married or a girl who has never married is busy with the Lord’s work. She wants to give herself fully—body and soul—to the Lord. But a married woman is busy with things of the world. She is trying to please her husband.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁴ There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁴ And he is drawn in diverging directions [his interests are divided and he is distracted from his devotion to God]. And the unmarried woman or girl is concerned and anxious about the matters of the Lord, how to be wholly separated and set apart in body and spirit; but the married woman has her cares [centered] in earthly affairs–how she may please her husband.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁴ and is divided. So also the woman that is unmarried and the virgin is careful for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married is careful for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

Common English Bible

³⁴ His attention is divided. A woman who isn’t married or who is a virgin is concerned about the Lord’s concerns so that she can be dedicated to God in both body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the world’s concerns—how she can please her husband.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁴ And the unmarried woman and the virgin think about the things that are of the Lord, so that she may be holy in body and in spirit. But she who is married thinks about the things that are of the world, as to how she may please her husband.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁴ And the unmarried woman and the virgin thinketh on the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she that is married thinketh on the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:34 Tagairtí Cros

John 10:13

The man runs away because he is only a paid worker. He does not really care for the sheep.

Romans 6:13

Don’t offer the parts of your body to serve sin. Don’t use your bodies as things to do evil with. But you should offer yourselves to God. Be like people that have died and now live. Offer the parts of your body to God to be used for doing good.

1 Corinthians 6:20

You were bought \{by God\} at a price. So honor God with your bodies.

1 Corinthians 7:33

But a man who is married is busy with things of the world. He is trying to please his wife.

1 Corinthians 7:35

I am saying these things to help you. I am not trying to limit you. But I want you to live in the right way. And I want you to give yourselves fully to the Lord without giving your time to other things.

2 Corinthians 11:28

And there are many other problems. One of these is the care I have for all the churches. I worry about them every day.

2 Corinthians 8:16

I thank God because he gave Titus the same love for you that I have.

Philippians 1:20

The thing I want and hope for is that I will not fail Christ in anything. I hope that I will have the courage now, like always, to show the greatness of Christ in my life here on earth. I want to do that if I die or if I live.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

We pray that God himself, the God of peace, will make you pure—belonging only to him. We pray that your whole self—spirit, soul, and body—will be kept safe and be without wrong when our Lord Jesus Christ comes.

1 Timothy 3:5

(If a man does not know how to be a leader over his own family, then he will not be able to take care of God’s church.)

1 Timothy 5:5

If a widow is really alone and without help, then she hopes in God \{to take care of her\}. That woman prays all the time, night and day. She asks God for help.

Titus 3:8

There is something that you should do. And because of the authority I have in Christ, I feel free to command you to do it.